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        <title><![CDATA[Nenny comes just after Esperanza in birth order, so Esperanza is often...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nenny comes just after Esperanza in birth order, so Esperanza is often responsible for her, a task she sometimes finds odious.  Nenny &quot;is too young to be (her) friend...she's just (her) sister and that was not (her) fault...you don't pick your sisters, you just get them and sometimes they come like Nenny&quot;.  The responsiblity her sister represents makes Esperanza feel like &quot;a red balloon...tied to an anchor&quot; (&quot;Boys...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;House on Mango Street&quot;, why is Esperanza annoyed by Nenny?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;House on Mango Street&quot;, why is Esperanza annoyed by Nenny? Give details from the book.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the book what does Cinsero like or dislike about Chicago explain why...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the book what does Cinsero like or dislike about Chicago explain why she likes Chicago, her ups and downs of chicago?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[All the characters on Mango Street have some bond or influence on...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[All the characters on Mango Street have some bond or influence on Esperanza. The House on Mango Street is made up of vignettes (short, descriptive scenes) of parts of Esperanza's life which are important to her. Therefore, all the characters included in the vignettes are important to the development of Esperanza. Whether it is by direct interaction or observation, these characters on her street contribute to her becoming the person she is.
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        <title><![CDATA[Absolutely!  Her personality and desire for better are stronger than...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Absolutely!  Her personality and desire for better are stronger than her bonds to heritage and family.  She will always come back, but there is no doubt that she will leave.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:14:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Esperanza says she is the ugly girl in the family, so no husband will...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Esperanza says she is the ugly girl in the family, so no husband will come for her. She wants to be powerful like the beautiful women in the movies, so she decides to get her power from a different source: she begins to behave like a man.Esperanza decides to rebel against the patriarchal society that expects her to suppress her individuality and “grow up tame.” She decides she won’t be “like the others who lay their necks on the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:47:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The old aunts call Esperanza over and read her palm. The one with the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The old aunts call Esperanza over and read her palm. The one with the marble hands says that when she leaves Mango Street, she must remember to return, “to come back for the others.” She tells Esperanza not to forget who she is, because she will always be Esperanza and will always be part of Mango Street.The three aunta teach Esperanza, who had been so passionate in her desire to leave Mango Street and have a “real” house and to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:42:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The House on Mango Street Esperanza reveals herself as both a product...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The House on Mango Street Esperanza reveals herself as both a product of the community in which she lives and one of the only figures courageous enough to transcend her circumstances. Like all adolescents, Esperanza struggles to forge her own identity. Despite her ties to the past, Esperanza leaves no doubt that she is destined to leave this neighborhood for a bigger world outside the barrio, an allusion to her dual cultural loyalties....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:26:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Throughout the story, Esperanza clings her desire to leave Mango Street....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Throughout the story, Esperanza clings her desire to leave Mango Street. Do you think that one day she will leave?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:49:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What did the sister with the marble hands mean when she told Esperanza...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What did the sister with the marble hands mean when she told Esperanza that she must remember to come back for the others? ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;Beautiful and Creul&quot; Esperanza says, &quot;I have begun my...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;Beautiful and Creul&quot; Esperanza says, &quot;I have begun my own quiet war.&quot; What does she mean?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:43:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This question has already been answered.  Please see the link below. ...]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:07:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This quote comes from the chapter, &quot;Those Who Don't.&quot;  The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This quote comes from the chapter, &quot;Those Who Don't.&quot;  The meaning of Esperanza's statement, &quot;All brown, all around, we are safe,&quot; bespeaks the reality of racial division and prejudice that exists in the segregated world of contemporary society for Latinos and Latinas living in Chicago in the mid 1980s.  Esperanza has already witnessed the clashes of racial identity in previous chapters.  She never truly feels safe and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:54:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What bonds do the different characters share with Esperanza in &quot;The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What bonds do the different characters share with Esperanza in &quot;The House on Mango Street&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:12:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;The House on Mango Street,&quot; how does Esperanza feel about...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;The House on Mango Street,&quot; how does Esperanza feel about going into a neighborhood of another color?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:06:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In  &quot;The House on Mango Street,&quot; Esperanza says of her...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In  &quot;The House on Mango Street,&quot; Esperanza says of her neighborhood, &quot;All brown all around, we are safe.&quot; What does she mean?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:52:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Esperanza lives in a very poor neighborhood, called a bario, in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Esperanza lives in a very poor neighborhood, called a bario, in Chicago. It is a street of run down houses and questionable neighbors. The neighborhood is becoming &quot;worse&quot; when Esperanza's family moves into their house, as evidenced by Cathy's family (a girl Esperanza meets in the beginning of the novella) moving away. Though poor, the neighborhood is full of colorful characters like Rachel and Lucy, the sisters Esperanza becomes...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:07:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Esperanza isn't longing for a particular kind of house. What she wants...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Esperanza isn't longing for a particular kind of house. What she wants is a house she can call her own: &quot;a house all my own—Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.&quot; She won't forget where she came from, though: &quot;They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot come out.&quot; The house on Mango Street is not that ideal house of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:36:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The House on Mango Street, what is Esperanza's neighborhood like?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The House on Mango Street, what is Esperanza's neighborhood like?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:19:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is the house on Mango Street the kind of house Esperanza always wanted?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is the house on Mango Street the kind of house Esperanza always wanted?]]></description>
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